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Rebellion, Unrest, Calamity: British Reports On Ottoman Syria In 1821-1823, Theophilus C. Prousis
Rebellion, Unrest, Calamity: British Reports On Ottoman Syria In 1821-1823, Theophilus C. Prousis
History Faculty Research and Scholarship
"...extortions and vexations practised by the pasha of Acre."
"...a most awful calamity which has befallen [Aleppo]..."
"...the dreadful earthquake that has desolated the whole pashalik..."
"...heaps of stone and rubbish..." "...scenes of horror..."
"...the crush of falling walls —the shrieks, the groans, the accents of agony and despair of that long night..."
"...a greater mass of human misery has seldom been produced by any ofthe awful convulsions of nature." "...the aggressions and violence which British commerce and navigation (even the most innocent and legal) are now suffering in consequence of the audacity of the Greek cruizers on the coast …
Black Heritage Stamp Series: Gregory Hines, United States Postal Service. Stamp Division
Black Heritage Stamp Series: Gregory Hines, United States Postal Service. Stamp Division
Rodney Lawrence Hurst, Sr. Stamp Collection
Informational pages for Gregory Hines Commemorative stamp – Black Heritage Series, includes images of the stamps and biographical information for Gregory Hines. First issued January 28, 2019, 42nd in a series.
The Ambassador’S Right-Hand Man: Terrick Hamilton At The Porte, Theophilus C. Prousis
The Ambassador’S Right-Hand Man: Terrick Hamilton At The Porte, Theophilus C. Prousis
History Faculty Research and Scholarship
These vivid comments by Terrick Hamilton, secretary at the British embassy in Constantinople during the ambassadorship of Lord Strangford, evoked the escalating crisis that engulfed the Ottoman realm in the early 1820s. At a tense but pivotal moment in Ottoman history, the Empire of Sultan Mahmud II faced daunting internal and external pressures triggered by war, revolt, sectarian strife, the erosion of effective ruling institutions, and European penetration. The Greek insurrection against the Sublime Porte broke out in 1821 in the Danubian Principalities, the Peloponnese, and other Greek-inhabited areas, morphing into a prolonged and costly conflict between Ottoman troops and …